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RSS FeedsRob Ford confidant Sandro Lisi running for school trustee in Etobicoke
(The Star Movies)

 
 

23 september 2018 03:41:37

 
Rob Ford confidant Sandro Lisi running for school trustee in Etobicoke
(The Star Movies)
 


The man who became famous for his sidekick role in one of the most scandalous periods in Toronto history is running to be a school board trustee in Etobicoke.Alexander (Sandro) Lisi, who was former mayor Rob Ford’s friend and occasional driver, is now running to be the Toronto District School Board trustee in Ward 1 (Etobicoke North), he confirmed Saturday.“My time spent with Rob has had a big influence on me,” Lisi told the Star in a text message. “I look at politics totally different now. It’s about helping people. I like that.”Read more: What you need to know about Toronto’s 25 new wardsNew boundaries present new challenges, trustees sayComing to a screen near you, Toronto election attack adsHe referenced school closures and youth violence as reasons he’s running.“I see schools around my neighbourhood closing down. Violence in the schools concerns me. I think I can make a difference,” he said.Lisi found himself in the midst of a police investigation relating to Ford in 2013. He was charged with several drug-related offences and also with extortion for allegedly trying to retrieve from gang members a video of the then mayor smoking crack. Lisi was acquitted in 2015 on all counts related to drugs. In 2016, the extortion charge was also withdrawn.It was the extortion case against Lisi that allowed, years later, the infamous crack video to be released. A half-full courtroom of students and journalists saw it for the first time during a pretrial hearing.“He was collateral damage,” his lawyer at the time, Domenic Basile, said of Lisi in 2016. “He was somebody caught in the middle and he was the only one charged. It’s caused irreparable harm to him and his family.”The case centred on a call Lisi made, caught on police wiretaps, in which he told a man who lived in the Dixon Rd. area and who was believed to know about the video: “You see the heat on Dixon, bro? … It&# ...


 
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